Beauty in the eye of the beholder A pair of figures, considering the perception of beauty and importance placed on it. The golden corsets perhaps indicate the cost behind the beauty, the mirror and the quotes are the reflection of self judgement. Byron's attitude to his own image, to a difficult to achieve model of beauty in women, and the environment of comment and opinion, the way women look being their most important asset, fed much food for thought in the art and literature of the age - and of succeeding ages to the present. Both are beautiful. If they can only realise it. The quotes offer different perspectives: She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes She Walks In Beauty "To me no pleasure beauty brings; Thine eyes have scarce a charm for me" Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 45x14x17cm 44x15x13cm |
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